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Topic Review (Newest First)

05-31-2009 12:56 AM

ffwturbo

^^^ Agreed, on street tires if you go thru the water box a little burn out after and out of the water box will help a little with traction. Dont go John force on your street tires. Just release your E brake when you feel the car pulling. Thats all you need.

05-28-2009 01:02 AM

focusmaniaczx3

ive found that a breif hazing does wonders for hooking on street tires at the track depending on what compound tire it is...

05-27-2009 10:29 PM

djo90

I have different tires and no TC

05-27-2009 02:45 PM

Buickboy

the bog couldve been from traction control, ive read plenty of times it sucks and you cant get rid of it without pulling a fuse or a tune

05-20-2009 11:16 PM

TrueBlue02

Elevation, temp, track surface, tire compound... all of these make a huge difference in a drag race. You haven't mentioned them.

I assume stock tires and a crap track. If so then you will run slow, just physics.

05-20-2009 10:54 PM

djo90

The puddle of water didn't make sense for street legals

05-20-2009 12:36 PM

kritter

Quote:

Originally Posted by WitchCitySVT

The puddle is for wetting your tires for a burnout and if your on street tires, you should go around the puddle.

There really was no way to go around it. It was in a dip in the pavement the whole width of the track before the start line...

Thanks for the info though!

05-20-2009 11:06 AM

WitchCitySVT

Quote:

Originally Posted by kritter

There were allot of people complaining about the track as well. I dont know anything about tracks/drag racing, but is it common place to run through a small puddle of water before coming up to the line? Then factor in the 2352' altitude of the track...

The puddle is for wetting your tires for a burnout and if your on street tires, you should go around the puddle.

05-20-2009 10:52 AM

focusmaniaczx3

elevation will play a factor. a trick i used to do was drive up to the mountains to pick up people and things. reset my ecu while im up there and let it re-learn all its mapping points and get used to the higher altitude. afterwards i would directly drive back down after it finished a drive cycle and go to the track. always seemed to make it go faster when i would directly take it back to low altitudes after coming from the mountains.

05-19-2009 10:25 PM

djo90

My friend jesse has a NA built celica GTS TRD. He ran 15.4 at that track and down in Arizona with more elevation, he ran 14.9. I think it's just our track

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